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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-disease-control-wales-amendment-order-2026/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-disease-control-wales-amendment-order-2026/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2026/134",
  "legislation_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-disease-control-wales-amendment-order-2026",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS, WALES\nANIMAL HEALTH\nMade 9 November 2026\nComing into force 20 November 2026\nThe Welsh Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Animal Health Act 1981.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1981 c. 22. Functions of “the Ministers” under the Animal Health Act 1981 (as defined in section 86(1) of that Act) are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales) by virtue of the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Orders 1999 and 2004 (S.I. 1999/672 and S.I. 2004/3044) and section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32). The definition of “disease” in section 88(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981, as it applies in Wales, is extended by the Animal Health Act 1981 (Extension of Definition of Disease) (Wales) Order 2026 (W.S.I. 2026/114) to include swine vesicular disease."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2026/134/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-12T03:41:41.113974+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}